Almost a fifth of the UK's electricity was generated by renewables in the first three months of this year, official figures show.
Increases in the number of offshore and onshore wind turbines, along with high winds, boosted wind power, while a doubling of average rainfall on the previous year in areas that have hydropower saw electricity from the technology hit record levels.
The increase in renewables, coupled with a fall in the amount of electricity generated overall in the first quarter of 2014, led to wind, hydro, solar, wave, tidal and biomass power plants generating a record 19.4 per cent of the UK's electricity during the period.
It was an increase of seven percentage points on the same quarter in 2013, when 12.4 per cent of electricity came from renewables.
Low-carbon generation, which also includes nuclear power, made up almost two-fifths of the electricity mix (37.1 per cent) in the first three months of 2014.
Coal, gas and nuclear power generation all fell compared to the same period in 2013.
The figures from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) also showed that 5.2 per cent of all the UK's energy, including heating and transport, came from renewables in 2013, an increase from 4.2 per cent in 2012.
The UK has a legally binding target to source 15 per cent of all its energy from renewables by 2020, as part of the European Union's drive to generate 20 per cent of energy from renewables by the end of this decade.